“You have to be all sorts of twisted to think ‘making poor people more comfortable’ is a bad thing.” The grassroots organization People for Bernie on Tuesday advised the Democratic Party to take a page from an unlikely source—right-wing Vice President Mike Pence—after Pence told a rally crowd in Florida that progressives and Democrats “want to […]
“The purge happening at the Department of Defense, in the middle of a messy transition, should worry us all.” Fears that a possible slow-motion coup is in progress in the United States continued to grow on Wednesday, as observers sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump’s decision to install “extreme Republican partisans” at the Pentagon after […]
“It’s how we all thought they would do it. It’s what they said they wouldn’t do. And it’s exactly what they are doing.” Election experts and other critics of voter suppression responded with alarm Tuesday after the United States Postal Service failed to meet a court-ordered afternoon deadline to conduct sweeps at mail processing […]
Court says Governor must restore 2021 funding ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Anchorage Superior Court has ruled that Governor Michael Dunleavy violated the Alaska Constitution when he vetoed $334,700 from the Alaska Court System twice for a Supreme Court ruling at odds with his personal beliefs. In the Friday decision, Superior Court Judge Jennifer Henderson […]